Adoption of PSMA-PET has been swift because it can significantly improve prostate cancer detection and treatment. SNMMI President Munir Ghesani, MD, explains how.

“Our approach has the potential to facilitate timely diagnoses and management of pancreatic lesions encountered in routine clinical practice,” experts involved in the study said.

One radiologist is being held liable for a patient’s injuries due to a “breach of standard of care” despite another radiologist also missing the same significant finding, Canadian Lawyer reports. 

MRI-directed contrast enhanced mammography could serve as a useful stand-alone or complimentary tool for biopsy planning when suspicious lesions are detected. 

Compared to World Trade Center responders who have not been diagnosed with PTSD, those who had received the diagnosis were observed to have decreased fractional anisotropy of white matter tracts on their brain MRIs.

Compared to the individuals without a history of smoking, both current and former smokers had thicker, weaker and heavier hearts.

Munir Ghesani, MD, president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and system chief of nuclear medicine at Mount Sinai Health, explains PSMA-PET has seen rapid adoption because it can significantly improve prostate cancer detection and treatment. 
 

Although private practice radiology leaders are granted with a great deal of autonomy, managing a practice presents additional stressors that staff radiologists within hospital systems are not routinely burdened with, authors of the new analysis suggested.

A fully automated body composition analysis derived from CT imaging can be a valuable pretreatment tool for patients with colorectal cancer. 

In a close collaboration with radiation oncologists, experts trained their model on the CT lung images of 787 patients and tested it on the scans of more than 1,300 patients from external datasets.